Formic acid catalyzed isomerization of protonated cytosine: a lower barrier reaction for tautomer production of potential biological importance

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics : PCCP
Lingxia JinYawen Wei

Abstract

Tautomerism in nucleotide bases is one of the possible mechanisms of DNA mutation. In spite of numerous studies on the structure and energy of protonated cytosine tautomers, little information is available on the process of their intra- and intermolecular tautomerizations. The catalytic ability of H2O, HCOOH, and the HCOOHH2O group to facilitate the tautomerism of the Cyt2t+ to CytN3+ isomer has been studied. It is shown that the activation free energies of tautomerism in the gas phase are 161.17, 58.96, 26.06, and 15.69 kJ mol-1, respectively, when the reaction is carried out in the absence and presence of H2O, HCOOH, or the HCOOHH2O group. The formation of a doubly hydrogen bonded transition state is central to lowering the activation free energy and facilitating the intramolecular hydrogen atom transfer that is required for isomerization. In the aqueous phase, although the solvent effects of water significantly decrease the activation free energy of intramolecular tautomerization, the isomerization of the Cyt2t+ to CytN3+ isomer remains unfavorable, and the HCOOH and HCOOHH2O group mediated mechanisms are still more favorable. Meanwhile, conventional transition state theory (CTST) followed by Wigner tunneling correction is t...Continue Reading

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